China on Wednesday denounced new US military aid for Taiwan that’s included in a massive $95 billion foreign aid bill President Biden has signed into law, warning that it will make a conflict more likely.
“I would like to stress that getting closer militarily between the United States and the Taiwan region will not make the latter safer or save ‘Taiwan independence’ from doom. It will only heighten tensions and the risk of conflict and confrontation in the Taiwan Strait, and will eventually backfire,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office also condemned the new US aid for Taiwan. “It sends a wrong signal to the Taiwan separatist forces. We urge the US side to fulfill its commitment not to support Taiwan independence with concrete actions and stop arming Taiwan in any way,” said Taiwan Affairs Office spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian.
In Taiwan, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said she was “very happy” that Congress passed the legislation. Taiwanese President-Elect William Lai, the current vice president, also celebrated the bills.
Zhu blasted Tsai and Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party, saying it’s willing to “become a pawn for external forces to use Taiwan to contain China, bringing Taiwan into a dangerous situation.”
Over $8 billion of the $95 billion bill is allocated for Taiwan and other spending to prepare for a future war with China in the Indo-Pacific region. It includes $1.9 billion to replenish weapons sent to Taiwan and regional countries and $2 billion in Foreign Military Financing, a State Department program that gives foreign governments money to purchase US weapons. Over $3.3 billion will go toward submarine infrastructure in the region.
The US has sold weapons to Taiwan since severing diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979 but never funded military aid for the island until last year, a step that was highly provocative toward Beijing. China has repeatedly warned the US against its steps to increase military and diplomatic support for Taiwan, which it calls the “first red line that must not be crossed” in US-China relations.
“stop arming Taiwan in any way,” said Taiwan Affairs Office spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian. In other words, let’s make it easier for mainland China to invade Taiwan.
Did the Taiwanese ask for US help to provoke the mainland China or does Biden need another war to get elected and the MIC keeps sharing the profits with him?
There was an agreement with China, but for the USA that is just toilet tissue.
Yes, Taiwan wants USA help.
How do you know that?
Only the pro independence party wants US interference. Your average Taiwanese wants to maintain peace with China since it is there biggest trading partner. The US is only there to stir up trouble and delude itself into thinking that it is still relevant…
There is such nostalgia for WWII when “we” were all working against evil, united, engaged and making sacrifices (no nylon stockings; putting our Japanese neighbors behind bars). The staggering empty hole of the contemporary soul must evidently be filled in the most ancient, reptile-brain way.
The US war with China would be the end of US hegemony…!
Wise people say be careful of what you wish for. It appears to me that the world is shifting away from the influence of the US and towards BRICS which is preaching economic partnership instead of US Military and financial domination. But as usual Washington is the last place to get the word. The US and Israel against everyone does not seem to be working.
President Tsai Ing-wen has not learned the lesson of Ukraine.
She, like Zel-boy and the German and French “leaders” are just frontmen for powers making money off war, chaos, and conflict.
What concerns me more is that the educated and intelligent people of Taiwan did not adequately heed the lesson of Ukraine and elect, as they could have, the party that could have reduced tensions in the recent elections. They allowed themselves to be bamboozled by a shiny “new” party created for the purpose of confusion and lost their chance. I hope it does not lead to their ruin, as in Ukraine.
I’m not sure they did. 2022:
Taiwan leader Tsai quits as ruling party chief after local elections loss
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has stepped down as head of her ruling party after it suffered defeat in Saturday’s local elections, while the Beijing-friendly main opposition held its ground.
Tensions rose to their highest level in years in August when Beijing staged huge military drills around Taiwan to protest against a visit to Taipei by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The KMT, which promoted closer ties with China when in power, pledged to “work hard to maintain peace in the region” as its chairman declared victory at a press conference.
“We will dedicate ourselves to the Taiwanese people selflessly, we will be selfless so the KMT can have a chance to win the (presidential) elections in 2024,” said Eric Chu.
Agence France-Presse
November 26, 2022
I was talking about the 2024 national elections:
https://www.csis.org/analysis/taiwans-2024-elections-results-and-implications
The third party addition diluted the antiwar vote and allowed the “independence” party to form the next govt, though it will be a minority govt …
Thanks! Good info I was unaware of.
The people, in 2022, voted for domestic issues like infrastructure, reducing pollution and so on.
They won the elections, there was no reason for any protests against the government. Outsiders had to be involved, even NGOs can’t be trusted. The CIA has contaminated almost all international institutions, including the UN.
Who funded and organized the protests in Taiwan? I have no doubt that the CIA did it, there were also protests against the governments collusion with the US.
The hegemon is using terrorism, sanctions, anti government protests and assassinations and wars to destabilize societies, setting nations up for regime change of democratically elected government, all in the name of freedom and Democracy.
They simply declare elections fraudulent if that does not do it, they declare them terrorist states and must be sanctioned. The hegemon is in control of a global MAFIA GANG, the USA has become a rogue state.
Maybe he knows how much Zelensky got paid and all the NATO officials, enough to build their mansions on the moon once the blue planet is nothing but radioactive rubble the day after?
She, and of course, big bribes.
i don’t believe China has any hostile intentions on Taiwan. I think IMHO that this is bullshit generated by the MIC and accomplished for the defense department,Pentagon and warmongers in the contractors to keep the money and profits flowing. This country has been involved in one war or another almost without a letup since the American Revolution.Obviously this happens for a reason. The reason now is economic in nature. If war spending would cease and return to proper levels certain industries and locations would suffer greatly. No Submarine,Tanks,Guns Ammo F35s to rob the taxpayers of the money needed to attack our issues like Healthcare,Housing,Education,Infrastructure Climate Change. Instead we plunge our national wealth into things that kill instead of things that cure a variety of social evils. Our goals need to change on a national level. Nothing less will suffice.
I’m afraid that our system of representative republic is too prone to being captured by self-interested money powers, as some of the Founders warned, and that it was captured long ago by the banking and weapons corporations.
National bankruptcy is the only hope …
“i don’t believe China has any hostile intentions on Taiwan.” It does not matter what you or I believe, what matters is what Taiwan believes. And Taiwan believes and China actions have demonstrated that there is real chance of China invading Taiwan.
There is absolutely no proof of any kind that China has intentions to invade Taiwan, but they need to remove the terrorist threat of the United States in the region as a whole. Taiwan will never declare independence because the world recognizes it as a part of China, except for the mendacious war hawks in the US government.
Ah c’mon China, that aid is for world peace. For real.
US Secretary of State Blinken in China with a bagful of demands and threats
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has landed in China for a three-day visit armed with a slew of demands and threats as part of the Biden administration’s aggressive confrontation and military build-up against Beijing. Chief among those demands is that China halt the export of so-called dual-use items to Russia, which the US claims are helping Moscow prosecute the war against the US-NATO backed regime in Ukraine.
The US is not only demanding that China halt the sale of so-called dual-use items, including computer chips and machine tools. It is also threatening to cut Chinese banks facilitating such trade from the global financial system based on the US dollar. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned during her visit to China earlier this month: “Any banks that facilitate significant transactions that channel military or dual-use goods to Russia’s defence industrial base expose themselves to the risk of US sanctions.”
Washington’s demand is completely hypocritical. The Biden administration acknowledges China has not sold weapons to Moscow, yet it is pushing through Congress a huge $95 billion-package of military funding of which $61 billion is to go to Ukraine and the US-NATO war against Russia. Now the US is insisting that the sale of dual-use items—a broad, undefined category to which almost anything could be added—be stopped.
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ): “China’s right to conduct normal trade and economic exchanges with Russia and other countries in the world on the basis of equality and mutual benefit should not be interfered with or disrupted. The United States should immediately stop imposing unilateral sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/25/fgdm-a25.html
China in every diplomatic way possible must remove the deluded and mendacious US presence in Taiwan as they did in Hong Kong. The Chinese are far smarter than the knuckle dragging US politicians making chaos in the world. Since the US military is a failure on the war front, China should take steps to make this even more evident if necessary…